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Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)

The purpose of this manual is to introduce the ASSIST and to describe how to use it in health care settings – particularly community based primary health care settings – to identify people who are using substances, so that a brief intervention (or referral) can be provided, as appropriate.

MAT for OUD Environmental Scan, Volume 2: Tools and Resources

This document includes more than 350 tools and resources available to providers, patients, and communities to help implement MAT in rural primary care and other ambulatory care settings. These tools are categorized by topic and address the full spectrum of needs for patients with or at risk for OUD, including OUD awareness and education prevention, MAT training and education, MAT implementation, and overdose. Although the tools were not all created specifically for rural primary care practices, they are potentially useful in those and other settings.

MAT for OUD Environmental Scan, Volume 1

This environmental scan describes the significant challenges and barriers that may limit access to MAT services in rural primary care settings, including those related to workforce, stigma, logistics, financing, and policy. The report also highlights essential characteristics of effective MAT practices and identifies three innovative models of care that may help overcome challenges to implementing MAT services in rural primary care settings.

A Guidebook of Professional Practices for Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration: Observations From Exemplary Sites

This Guidebook identifies the key professional practices prominent among exemplary integrated primary care organizations, with the goal of helping other sites integrate care more effectively. Findings are organized into two categories: Organization-Level Professional Practices, and Interpersonal and Individual Professional Practices.

Exploring Value-Based Payment to Encourage Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Primary Care

Examines how States and payers can use value-based payment to promote the integration of substance use disorder treatment in primary care

Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) Readiness and Implementation Checklist

Provides policymakers, State and local officials, and other community stakeholders with key questions to consider before engaging in efforts to increase access to MAT for addiction in their communities

Assessment and Management of Chronic Pain Guideline Summary

Provides a summary of recommendations on how to assess and manage chronic pain. Includes detailed tools, such as an assessment algorithm, management algorithm, personal care plan for chronic pain, and the DIRE Score, which predicts patient suitability for long-term opioid analgesic treatment.

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